EXCLUSIVE: Sequester means cuts to local housing for poor

7:29 PM,
Jun. 25, 2013

CMHA executive director Gregory Johnson

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Housing for the poor in Greater Cincinnati will take a huge hit in the coming months when federal budget cuts eliminate financial help for about 1,000 needy families and force layoffs at the city's housing authority.

Officials at the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority disclosed the impending cuts for the first time Tuesday and said they will slash the agency's budget by 25 percent - from $63 million to $47 million.

They blamed almost all of the cuts on the sequester, the series of mandatory federal spending reductions that took effect earlier this year when Congress was unable to ...